Alex Lowe Quotes
There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have authorized ourselves to be authors.
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I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.
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I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.
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We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.
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There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'
